Police Ready to Execute Death Row Cinvicts

Jakarta (Antara) - National Police Chief General Sutarman has said his personnel are ready to execute death row convicts and are awaiting directives from the Attorney General's Office. "We are waiting for requests from the Attorney General's Office. We have prepared a team that will carry out directives as soon as they are issued," the police chief said here on Wednesday. "Even though we are ready, we are still waiting for directives from the Attorney General's Office that acts as the executor," the police chief noted. He remarked that the National Police have a trained firing squad. "The National Police already have an executor team that has been trained and prepared under the Jakarta Regional Metro Jaya Police and the Regional Police of Central Java. The firing squad executor team comprises seven members of Police Mobile Brigade (Brimob). Earlier, the Attorney General's Office stated there are six death convicts to be executed soon. They are Agus Hadi, Pujo Lestari, Gunawan Santoso, Tan Joni, Namaona Denis, and Marco Archer Cardoso. In December 2014, the Attorney General's Office had said it will execute two death row convicts at the end of the year. The two murder convicts will be executed in Nusakambangan Island off Central Java's southern coast, Head of the Legal Information Center of the AGO Tony T Spontana had said. (*)